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From: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu (Rick Rodgers)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Discretion is the better part of valor.
Message-ID: <1467@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 88 20:37:26 GMT
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In article <2311@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) writes:
>In article <1151@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu (Jim Olsen) writes:
>>>From the Sunday New York Times (page 1):
>>>"[Robert Morris] quickly recognized that things had gone terribly wrong
>>>and, they disclosed, he arranged for a friend to send out instructions
>>>on eradicating the virus to the same computers plagued by the virus."
>>
>>Has anyone identified this alleged eradication message?
>
There was an article inside the Wall St. Journal several days ago which
described this process, and named the friend.  I still believe that
delegating such a task is a major misjudgment.


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